Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, has an an op-ed in El País today:
Our mission is to end impunity for crimes that, as we have said time and again, would not reoccur, only to see them committed time and...
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Due to appear soon: Fighters against Fascism, Max Arthur's oral history of British volunteers in Spanish Civil War. From the publisher:
Acclaimed oral historian Max Arthur has tracked down the eight survivors of this conflict, and interviewed them for their unique perspective, their memories of their time fighting and the motives...
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At the Globalist, César Chelala and Alejandro Garro write:
Judge Garzón properly applied international conventional and customary law. Two supranational tribunals (the European and Inter American Courts of Human Rights), as well as two UN committees (the UN Human Rights Committee and the UN Committee Against Torture) consistently condemned blanket amnesties,...
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Henry Chu reports from Madrid:
Gonzalo Martinez-Fresneda, an attorney for Garzon, said even the temporary suspension would have a "devastating symbolic effect." "If Garzon has to leave with all his boxes from his office, it's like the Lehman Bros. bankruptcy — there's no way back," Martinez-Fresneda said. "It would be a...
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The International Center of Photography in New York is gearing up for the much-anticipated exhibit of images from the "Mexican Suitcase," the archive of almost 4,000 images from the Spanish Civil War by Robert Capa, Gerda Taro and David "Chim" Seymour that were recovered two years ago, and by now all been...
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The Art Daily reports:
The New-York Historical Society and El Museo del Barrio this week announced details of their major upcoming collaboration, Nueva York—the first exhibition to explore how New York’s long and deep involvement with Spain and Latin America...
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The six-part documentary on the Spanish Civil War produced by Granada Television in the 1980s, with Neal Acherson, can be viewed online.
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Miren Gutiérrez interviews Francisco Etxebarria, the forensic scientist who has worked with Spain's the Association for the Recovery of Historical Memory:
”The three rights of victims are truth, justice and reparations, and these have not been forthcoming” in the case of the roughly 200,000 victims of murder and forced disappearance...
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A 25-minute address by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, recipient of the 2010 Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives Activist Award, at the 74th Reunion of the Volunteers for Liberty, Museo del Barrio, New York City, May 2, 2010.
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The June issue of the online Volunteer will feature some clips of our May 2 reunion event in New York City. Here are some previews.
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The “Spanija” series translates selected autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatian or Serbian and the translation of names and...
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The “Spanija” series translates selected autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatian or Serbian and the translation of names and...
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The “Spanija” series translates selected autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatian or Serbian and the translation of names and...
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The “Spanija” series translates selected autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatian or Serbian and the translation of names and...
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The “Spanija” series translates selected autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatian or Serbian and the translation of names and...
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ALBA’s passport project is currently in the third of four planned phases. The first two phases concentrated on volunteers whose name appears on the “Scope of Soviet Activity” list that includes passport numbers. The first phase of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) filings focused on volunteers killed in Spain. In the second phase,...
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The Spanija series translates select autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google Translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatioan or Serbian and the translation of names and...
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The “Spanija” series translates selected autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatian or Serbian and the translation of names and...
Read more »
The “Spanija” series translates selected autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatian or Serbian and the translation of names and...
Read more »
The “Spanija” series translates selected autobiographical accounts by Yugoslavian and Montenegrin volunteers of their actions in the Spanish Civil War. Dr. Ray Hoff used Google translate from Croatian to English and he edited the selections. As this is a machine translation, the idiomatic features of Croatian or Serbian and the translation of names and...
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ALBA's project to provide a complete list of the more than 2,800 individuals who left from U.S. territory to fight with the Spanish Republic
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